Francesca Samsel

I recently found the work of Francesca Samsel, a printmaker who uses nature and the environment as the inspiration for her viscosity etchings.  She is represented by Davidson Galleries in Seattle (http://www.davidsongalleries.com/) which also has a host of other printmakers and a really good print and contemporary drawings section. 

Here are some of her prints:-

Precipitation, 08.3, 2008



Migration, 05.11, 2005



Specimens, 2004

"My work has always revolved around nature,

man’s impact of the rest of the natural world and the analogies to contemporary life there in.  The physical changes occurring on earth have roots back to the industrial revolution, but the largest fingerprints are from my generation. 

These concerns are amplified when looking at the pictures brought back by the Hubble telescope."

Chocolate from the Equilibrium series, 2010
intaglio, viscosity etching, woodcut


Shaken from the Equilibrium series, 2010
intaglio, viscosity etching, woodcut

I like the fact that she uses various printing techniques
 to build up the work in series and how the
fragments represented combine to make the whole.


http://www.francescasamsel.com/